Navy/USMC

Adm. John Richardson on Friday took command as the Navy’s 31st chief of naval operations, relieving outgoing CNO Adm. Jonathan Greenert. Richardson takes the reins of the Navy at a […]

During an exercise on an Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the Navy fired a missile from a Raytheon [RTN] SeaRAM launcher—the first time the anti-ship missile defense system has been […]

Weeks before fiscal year 2015 comes to a close, Navy officials warned lawmakers that passing a continuing resolution would make it more difficult to execute its new Optimized Fleet Response […]

The Pentagon on Wednesday ordered Oshkosh [OSK] to cease work on the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), pending a protest by losing competitor Lockheed Martin [LMT]. Oshkosh on Aug. 24 […]

The Pentagon’s planned shock tests of the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), could cause its first deployment to be delayed up to two years, a […]

The U.S. Naval Research Lab and Raytheon [RTN] demonstrated successful captive flights of a modular, rapid replacement architecture for electronic warfare (EW) payloads on the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer (MALD-J), […]

The F-35 program will triple its aircraft production and fielding rate by 2019, which is giving Program Executive Officer (PEO) Air Force Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan pause, he said Wednesday. […]

Orbital ATK [OA] was awarded a contract worth up to $260 million for the combined fourth and fifth full-rate production lots of the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM), the company […]

Less than two weeks after the Army and Marine Corps awarded Oshkosh Defense [OSK] a $6.7 billion low-rate initial production contract for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, Lockheed Martin [LMT] […]

Raytheon (RTN) has been given the green light to begin full-rate production of the AIM-9X Sidewinder Block II infrared air-to-air missile, the company said Thursday. The program completed operational test and evaluation […]